Digimon Digital Card Battle (デジモンワールド デジタルカードアリーナ,Dejimonwaarudo Dejitarukaadoariina?, lit. "Digimon World: Digital Card Arena") is a PlayStationvideo game based on the Digimonfranchise. It is based on the Digimon card game and consists of the protagonist, taking the appearance of the hero from the Digimon World, and his attempts to become the strongest Card Tamer. This game should not be confused with Digimon World: Digital Card Battle, the prequel which set up the card battle system that is refined in this game.

Contents

Cards in the Game

The game contains a total of 301 cards, divided into Digimon cards and Support cards. The Digimon cards are divided into 5 properties:

Fire

Digimon with this property have powerful attack points, with low HP and average digivolve points of 10-20. The support effect of these Digimon mainly focus on adding attack points. Digimon partners Veemon, Flamedramon, Baronmon, Shadramon, and Magnamon belong to this group.

Ice

Digimon with this property have high HP and possess attack-sealing/counter attack, with low attack points and average digivolve points of 10-20. Their support effects mainly focus on HP recovery and attack sealing. Digimon partners belonging to this group include Tylomon, Quetzalmon, and Submarimon.

Digimon with this property have very high attack points, with varying HP and low digivolve points of 0-20. Their support effects are mainly about sacrificing for gain. The Digimon partners Wormmon, Raidramon, and Shadramon belong to this group.

Rare

Digimon with this property have very powerful support effect, with low attack points, HP and average digivolve points of 10-20. Their support effects include making own HP same as foe's or vice versa as well as forcing the opponent to discard cards from his hand, DP slot, or deck. Digimon partners Armadillomon, Digmon, and Shurimon belong to this group.

Support cards can be used in each battle phase after selecting an attack. They usually resemble a tool that appeared in the previous game, Digimon World, and have a wide array of effects, like adding 300 attack points, recover 700 HP if own HP is lower than foe's, 1st attack, changing own property to Darkness and halving both self and foe's HP, countering foe's attack and halving self's HP, etc.

Normally, the player can only have up to six copies of each card. However, there are some cards that the player is limited to only one copy and cannot be traded, like the Seven Cards, Download Digivolve and Rosemon's Lure. The player can only have three partners and the other three (and their respective Armor forms) cannot be obtained, but only acknowledged in their slots of the players card collection by defeating the corresponding Tamer (Davis, Keely, Cody, T.K., Kari and Ken) a certain number of times. Also, there are twelve super-rare cards that can only be obtained by creating 'fusion mutations', an event that has only 1% of chance of happening while fusing cards, known as the "Digi-Jewels". These cards, when all are put in the same deck, after a battle they will give 10 experience points. However, these cards have little to negative effects.

Partner Digimon

At the beginning of the game, the player chooses one partner out of the three that are available (Veemon, Hawkmon or Armadillomon) while getting a starter deck with specialties as the chosen partner's Armor forms. As the player progress through the game, he/she will be able to select two more partners. One is given by Cody in Igloo City after defeating the Battle Arena (Patamon or Gatomon) and the second is given by Ken in Steep Road (Any partner, including Wormmon).

Digi-Eggs

The Protagonist can Armor digivolve his Partner Card after he receives Digi-Eggs. The Armors available are:

The first Digi-Egg of his first partner is given by Davis after defeating the Battle Arena of Flame City, and its second is given by Wormmon after defeating the Digimon Emperor in Dark City.

The first Digi-Egg of his second partner is given by T.K. after defeating the Battle Arena of Pyramid City if Patamon is chosen or given by Kari after defeating the Battle Arena of Sky City if Gatomon is chosen, and its second is given by Tai after defeating WarGreymon in Beginner City.

The first Digi-Egg of his third partner is given by MetalGreymon after defeating the Battle Arena of Wiseman Tower, and its second is given by Omnimon after defeating him in Wiseman Tower.

In addition, if Veemon is chosen as a partner, his third Digi-Egg is given by BlackWarGreymon after defeating him in Beginner City.

Experience Points

Each partner has its respective Rank, starting at 1 to the highest at 99. In order to level up, the partner(s) must be included in the deck and when it gets enough experience points, it goes up a rank. Every 5 ranks, the partner gets a boost in either their HP or attack power.

Aside from Experience Points gained from battle with opponents, there are bonus experiences that can be gained by performed particular task when in battle:

Name

Japanese Name

Points

Condition

All Button Attack Win

オール 攻撃勝利

3

You only used button attacks.

All Button Win

オール 攻撃勝利

3

You only used button attacks.

All Button Attack Win

オール 攻撃勝利

3

You only used button attacks.

All Gamble Win

オールいちかばちか勝利

5

You used an All-or-Nothing gamble in every battle.

All-or-Nothing Gamble Win

とどめのいちかばちか勝利

2

You used an All-or-Nothing gamble to win the third Round.

No Support Card Win

オール援助なし勝利

5

You didn't use any Support Cards.

No Digivolve Win

オール進化なし勝利

3

You didn't digivolve.

No Discard Win

とりかえ無し勝利

1

You didn't discard your Hand (If the game automatically discard your Hand because you don't have a Battle Digimon and you didn't draw any Digimon card, you can still receive the bonus as long as you don't discard your Hand manually).

4-of-a-Kind Win

４カード

5

You drew 4 of the same card in 1 Hand.

0 Online Card Left Win

山札破壊勝利

2

You won with more than 1 Card in your Online Deck and 0 Cards in opponent's Online Deck.

Partner Win

パートナー勝利

1

You won a round with your Partner Card.

No Loss Win

無敗勝利

3

You didn't lose any Rounds.

Comeback Win

逆転勝利

3

You came back from 0-2 to win match.

Desperate Win

死闘勝利

7

You won 3-2. Both players had no Cards left in their Hands or Online Decks.

All Gone Win

ゼロゼロ勝利

2

You won with no Cards left in your Hand or Online Deck.

Ultimate Level Win

レベル完キラー

3

You defeated an Ultimate Level Card.

Option Maniac Win

オプションマニア

5

You won using a Deck with more than 25 Option Cards.

8 DP Card Win

ためマニア

8

You won with 8 Cards in your DP Slot.

Lucky Seven Win

ラッキー７

1

You won with 7 Cards left in your Online Deck.

Just Enough Attack Win

とどめのジャスト攻撃

3

Your final attack matched opponent's HP exactly.

12 S-Jewel Cards Win

１２，ｓジュエル

10

You won using a Deck containing all 12 S-Jewel Cards.

Choke Loss

おしい負け

2

You lost after being ahead 2-0.

Loss by Gamble

いちかばちか負け

2

Your opponent used All-or-Nothing gamble to win the third Round.

Total Loss

負け負け

1

You lost match 0-3.

Rainbow

レインボー

2

You entered all 5 Specialities as your Battle Digimon.

Mega Damage

ダメージフィーバー

10

Your Attack Power contained 3 of the same number. (Example: 1110)

Mega HP

ＨＰフィーバー

7

Your HP contained 3 of the same number. (Example: 1110)

3 Partners

パートナートリオ

2

You drew all 3 Partner Cards in the same Hand.

3 Partners Plus

パートナートリオ EX

2

You entered all 3 Partner Cards in the same Hand.

Partner Normal Digivolve

パートナー超進化

2

Your Partner digivolved to Level U without using Digivolve Option Cards. (You only need to digivolve your Partner to Level C without using Digivolve Option Cards. Then, even if you use a Digivolve Option card to digivolve from Level C to U, you will still get the bonus).

Digi-Parts

As the players partner(s) go up in ranks, he/she gains Digi-Parts. They can be used to boosts the partner's HP, attack power or modify it's support effect. Only 118 Digi-Parts can be earned by leveling up. The others can be gained by beating certain opponents certain number of times and by partner fusing. There are a total of 128 Digi-Parts in the game.

Completing the Game

By beating A the player 'finishes' the game. However, the game completion is only around 40%. To fully complete the game, the player must go through city to city again and beat the new arenas that open. The last opponent in the game is BlackWarGreymon who only appears after the player has beaten BlackMetalGarurumon and have 300+ wins. Card collection and Digi-Parts collection do not affect the game completion, which means even if one gets 100% cards and Digi-Parts, the game completion may not end with 100%.